Re: INSTALL-CVS

From:

Stefan Monnier

Subject:

Re: INSTALL-CVS

Date:

Wed, 04 Jun 2003 10:42:29 -0400

> David Masterson <address@hidden> writes:
>
> |> >>>>> Richard Stallman writes:
> |>
> |> > However, I guess it would be harmless now to change it so that
> |> > top-level `make all' updates the Info files but does not generate
> |> > the DVI files.
> |>
> |> Suggestion -- have the configure script 'touch' the Info files as the
> |> last thing it does if and only if they exist at the time of the
> |> 'configure'.
>
> This is counter-productive, because then if you rerun configure when the
> info files are out-of-date they won't be rebuilt.
Agreed.
I think we should simply add `man' to the default target and
live with it. If that means that `makeinfo' is sometimes called
when a user installs Emacs, what's the big deal ?
If the problem is that the user might not have a working `makeinfo',
how about running it with a leading "-" so that an error from
`makeinfo' is ignored by make ?
Stefan